For shame for poor-shaming

7:37 PM,
Aug. 2, 2013

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Tina Dupuy

You've heard the term "slut-shaming." It's a tactic used by those fighting to repeal the 20th century. As women make strides for equality, a chorus of antiquities pronounces women who want to work outside the home as promiscuous. Only wanton women would want abortion rights. Loose ladies demand day care.

Slut-shaming is even prevalent when women get sexually assaulted. In 2011, in the wake of a string of rapes in Toronto, Constable Michael Sanguinetti, a police officer, said, "women should avoid dressing like sluts." That touched off worldwide "SlutWalks" where women marched against ...